Or do you wait to assess its power and disposition before formulating a stratagem that might protect your group, as well as the secret of your skills?
(The Choice of Consideration) Please click here to turn to page 45.

You have defeated the Imperius of The Carrion Horde in a languimension outside our own. A difficult choice now awaits you.

Do you disband the Horde and return home to accept gratitude and a small payment of seasonal vegetables, knowing you’ve freed an enslaved people?
(The Choice of Feeling) Please click here to turn to page 58.

Or do you take up the fallen crown and rule the Horde as the new Carrion Imperius, considering the Horde might suffer without a firm leader?
(The Choice of Thinking) Please click here to turn to page 50.

Do you decide that the expedition comes first and you’ll come back to explore the cottage later, if it hasn’t already been eaten?(The Choice of Consideration)Please click here to turn to page 3.

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Elixer

You are a servant-golem to a liquimancer. She wishes to reward you for your service to her. She offers you an experimental elixir that might grant you an opportunity to feel true emotions. Consider her offer carefully.

Or would you return the elixir to protect what you’ve learned, knowing the liquimancer might someday refine the formula. (Though, being absentminded, she might also move on to something else altogether and forget.)(The Choice of Thinking)Please click here to turn to page 4.

Imagine a forest where the trees resemble dark, twisted glass and are full of illusory reflections. It would be wise to walk with care along its winding paths, as many of them might lead you into harm’s way.

As you enter a clearing, you see a baby deer about to be attacked by a wolf.

You find a caged baby fennucan on your doorstep. It seems harmless enough, but how do you divine with certainty that it is a true fennucan and not simply a termitian gnole hoping to gain entrance to your home?

You find a recipe for All-Seeing Soup, but the ingredient list is incomplete. Do you give it a go anyway, hoping that your beginning alchemical skills will guide you towards a successful concoction? What are the chances a magimystical soup could go wrong?(The Choice of Believing)Please click here to turn to page 36.

Or

Do you attempt to determine the missing ingredients with reference tomes and an alchemical process of elimination, rather than risk disaster? After all, only so many things pair well with horrid bridal toe caps.(The Choice of Knowing)Please click here to turn to page 60.

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Longhand

As a side effect of the exam, you might find your handwriting has marginally improved when drafting thank-you notes.